Announced through June’s Nintendo Direct, Among Us‘ newest major update brings two new crewmate roles, one new imposter role, improved UI features, additional lobby presets, and more.
The two new crewmate roles are the Tracker and the Noisemaker. The Tracker is able to track and locate a crewmate’s position on the map to sus out the Imposter. The Noisemaker, on the other hand, sends out a distress signal when killed. The visual indicator from the Noisemaker’s death is able to easily rally and pinpoint the Noisemaker’s location to more readily deduce the Imposter.
The Phantom is the final role added in this update: an Imposter role able to vanish for a short amount of time. Using this vanishing ability to escape or secure a kill makes the Phantom a swift assassin who can open up new strategies.
Game Presets from the Lobby Settings option can allow players to simplify the game without additional roles, while the Roles Galore option can change how often roles like Tracker, Guardian Angel, and Engineer appear.
Hide N Seek now has two presets available, with Pitch Dark and Flashlights for darkness and light playstyles, respectively.
Among Us has not just seen new updates in the core game recently, but at Summer Game Fest, Innersloth showcased an upcoming animated series based on the game with Randall Park, Yvette Nicole Brown, Kimiko Glenn, Phil Lamarr, and more included in the cast.
Be sure to update Among Us, so you can play and interact with the breadth of the game’s new features out now. The full patch notes are below.
Patch Notes
That’s a lot of newness happening, but it wasn’t just new items the team was working on. We also have a lot of patches so be sure to update your game to v2024.6.18 for these fixes:
The Fungle – Crewmates won’t be stuck in the ladder climb animation if a Mushroom Mixup happens while climbing a ladderShapeshifters who are climbing a ladder when a meeting is called will no longer get stuck in the climbing animationAirship and The Fungle as Shapeshifter – The Shapeshift duration timer now counts down correctly under all conditionsClassic and Hide N Seek – Desolation of Skeld Pet will now appear in the actual game and not guard their hoard in the dropshipQuick Chat – Text in the chat field will have the same colors as the quick chat builderiOS – The “Pending Account Deletion” message is no longer hidden by the Friend List barChild Accounts that become old enough to be full accounts will now receive permissions correctlyScientist – The battery duration timer is no longer blocked by the settings icon on some resolution settingsThe Great Goalie visor now layers correctly with certain hatsSkeld – An extra button no longer appears on the screen during the second part of the Inspect Sample task
